Movie Summary

Kind Hearts and Coronets is the story of Louis D'Ascoyne Mazzini, whose mother had been disowned by her aristocratic family when she married an Italian singer. When the family refuses to let her be buried in the family crypt, Louis determines that he will become the tenth Duke of Chalfont, as his mother always wanted - by the simple expedient of murdering all eight people who stand in his way.

QUOTES (6)

Louis (narrating, as he is being shown around the castle): Never before had I been to a building so lavishly equipped with the instruments of violent death. They seemed, however, ill-suited for the discreet requirements of 20th-century-homicide...So evening found my host still intact, and myself still without a plan.

The Reverend Lord Henry D'Ascoyne: [showing Louis his church]: You will note that our chantry displays the crocketted and finialed ogee which marks it as very early perpendicular. The bosses to the pendant are typical. And I always say that my west window has all the exuberance of Chaucer without, happily, any of the concomitant crudities of his period.

Louis Mazzini: How did you enjoy your honeymoon?Sibella: Not at all.Louis Mazzini: Not at all?Sibella: Not at all.Louis Mazzini: And how was Italy?Sibella: Oh, impossible! Every time I wanted to go shopping, Lionel dragged me off to a church or a picture gallery. He said he wanted to improve his mind.Louis Mazzini: He has room to do so.

NOTES (2)

It was apparently only intended at first that Alec Guinness should play four of the eight ill-fated members of the D'Ascoyne family, but he lobbied successfully for the chance to play all eight, and became an international star as a result.

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Classics,
Dark Comedy

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